﻿ORNITHOLOGICAL 
  NOTES 
  FROM 
  NORFOLK. 
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  ground, 
  which, 
  combined 
  with 
  lack 
  of 
  rain, 
  was 
  quite 
  sufficient 
  to 
  

   kill 
  the 
  plant 
  and 
  necessitate 
  a 
  fresh 
  sowing 
  of 
  the 
  field. 
  Books 
  

   are 
  often 
  guilty 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  habits, 
  and 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  the 
  

   farmer 
  loses 
  considerably. 
  Eooks 
  and 
  Jackdaws 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  

   very 
  busy 
  making 
  holes 
  in 
  what 
  few 
  wheat-stacks 
  still 
  remain 
  

   unthreshed, 
  doing 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  of 
  harm, 
  as 
  they 
  pull 
  out 
  as 
  

   much 
  as 
  they 
  eat, 
  and 
  let 
  in 
  the 
  rain. 
  

  

  However, 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  wish 
  to 
  take 
  away 
  their 
  character, 
  as 
  

   Mr. 
  H. 
  B. 
  Dobbie, 
  of 
  Thorpe, 
  has 
  identified 
  in 
  their 
  crops 
  the 
  

   following 
  larva? 
  : 
  - 
  Click-beetle, 
  cockchafer, 
  summer-chafer, 
  crane- 
  

   fly, 
  pea-weevil, 
  bean-weevil, 
  and 
  diamond 
  moth 
  ; 
  also 
  slugs, 
  

   snails, 
  millipedes, 
  woodlice, 
  centipedes, 
  and 
  earwigs, 
  most 
  of 
  

   which 
  are 
  destructive. 
  

  

  Allen's 
  Gallinule. 
  

  

  In 
  ' 
  The 
  Ibis 
  ' 
  (1903, 
  p. 
  431), 
  Mr. 
  Joseph 
  Whitaker 
  announces 
  

   two 
  occurrences 
  of 
  Porphyriola 
  alleni 
  in 
  Sicily— 
  one 
  in 
  December, 
  

   1902, 
  the 
  other 
  in 
  January, 
  1903 
  — 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  capture 
  of 
  a 
  

   third 
  in 
  North 
  Tunisia 
  in 
  December, 
  1902. 
  I 
  submit 
  that 
  this 
  

   is 
  corroboration 
  of 
  the 
  genuineness 
  as 
  a 
  wild 
  migrant 
  of 
  the 
  

   example 
  taken 
  on 
  a 
  boat 
  at 
  Yarmouth 
  on 
  January 
  1st, 
  1902, 
  

   and 
  already 
  recorded 
  (Zool. 
  1902, 
  p. 
  98). 
  It 
  is 
  certainly 
  remark- 
  

   able 
  that 
  this 
  Gallinule 
  should 
  come 
  at 
  this 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  to 
  

   any 
  part 
  of 
  Europe, 
  for 
  it 
  would 
  be 
  more 
  natural 
  to 
  expect 
  its 
  

   visits 
  late 
  in 
  spring 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  autumn. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  ' 
  Avifauna 
  Italica 
  ' 
  Prof. 
  Giglioli 
  dwells 
  on 
  the 
  fact 
  of 
  

   this 
  African 
  Waterhen 
  choosing 
  the 
  winter 
  months 
  in 
  which 
  to 
  

   visit 
  Europe 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Primo 
  Piesoconto 
  Eisultati 
  Inchiesta 
  

   Ornitolog. 
  in 
  Italia,' 
  i. 
  Avif. 
  Italica, 
  p. 
  550 
  (1889), 
  he 
  gives 
  notes 
  

   on 
  other 
  examples 
  believed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  obtained 
  in 
  Italy. 
  See 
  

   also 
  ' 
  Manual 
  e 
  di 
  Orn. 
  Ital.' 
  del 
  Arrigoni 
  degli 
  Oddi, 
  p. 
  642. 
  All 
  

   the 
  tribe 
  of 
  Gallinules 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  wanderers 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  believed 
  

   to 
  fly 
  high 
  on 
  migration, 
  and 
  thus 
  are 
  probably 
  easily 
  carried 
  

   away 
  by 
  strong 
  winds, 
  which 
  accounts 
  for 
  their 
  being 
  not 
  

   infrequently 
  caught 
  at 
  sea. 
  

  

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